HIWAGA | tk | ✓

11. colorless

now standing infront of a crowd he is so unfamiliar with; their faces concerned yet expectant, taehyung doesn't really know where to start.

fisting his shivering hands, he looked up and started-

"h-hello. i'm taehyung, the omega prince of baekje" he breathed out. taehyung ignored the murmurings that went about and continued.

he knows, namjoon had explained everything that happened in the kidnapping scenario, so he sticked with his part of the story.

he started with how his life restricted inside the palace, more like just in the four walls of his room.

"my father, the king hated me for being born as an omega, so did my brother." the omega continued and a series of gasps arose; hearing himself say it was indeed more depressing.

eventhough he tried to suppress it, his mind picked up instances from his life in palace, the ones that will haunt him forever.

he remembers how one time, his father caught a painting of his mother from his room. he was rewarded with a slap on his face and was dragged through the corridors to outside.

taehyung had screamed and begged when he was tied along with the guard dogs of the palace and the king burned the painting right infront of him. he spend the entire night shivering and humiliated, whimpering everytime those big dogs even dare take a look at him.

the next day he had gone down with a heavy fever and minsun had almost thought he wont make it out alive.

the feeling of the weight of his mothers ring on his pendant, was the only thing that was holding him up now.

the omega shivered at the memory, but decide to just stick with just how they used to hurt and starved him.

"if no one want me here... i can go away" he added, voice so small and trembling.

by the time he finished, taehyung was shaking, eyes getting clouded with tears and his tired body almost about to give out.

he noticed how everything was so quiet now and he didn't protest, when a hand on his back guided him away from the crowd.

taehyung sagged when he was brought into a hug, finally the tears breaking out and he cried out everything.

"you're safe here, cherry" the alpha had said, the voice vibrating against him. oh how nice it was to hear that! to just be safe and live without fear.

all the exhaustion from the travel now weighing him down, the omega couldn't even move a limb. he felt jungkook lifting him and moments later he was laid down somewhere.

"what did they do to you..." taehyung heard, before drifting off to sleep.

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jungkook was now outside by a field, lost in thoughts. a while ago seokjin had also joined him there.

they were just supposed to get the gold, come back to the village and celebrate. jungkook is still processing the turn of events.

"how you holding up, kook?" seokjin had asked.

"i dont know, hyung. its pretty fucked up." jungkook had sighed, face buried in his hands.

"i know, pup" seokjin sympathetically placed a comforting hand on jungkooks shoulder.

"i'm not a pup." he glared at seokjin, who just laughed it off.

after a beat of silence, he continued.

"in a way, he is like us right?" the alpha looked at seokjin.

"y-you should have seen the way they treated him, hyung. its just-" the alpha groaned frustratingly.

"i know he has nothing to do with all those. but still.." the alpha wavered.

"he reminds you of everything that happened in the past?" seokjin finished for him and the alpha nodded.

"its okay to feel conflicted, and what you did was indeed the right thing to do" seokjin said.

"we all lived fearing and hating every one of them... so it won't be easy to ease upto him." the omega continued and jungkook relaxed a bit.

"especially you, jungkook-ah" jungkook tensed slightly at the repressed memories.

"its okay to be confused" seokjin finished.

then the silence that continued was less tense.

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the palace of baekje was suffocating with the angry alpha pheromones.

ever since daejung came back looking beaten up to the pulp, the alpha king was roaring with anger.

he drank more, screamed more, plunched his sword into every guard who came back empty handed. he went hunting in the woods, his large claws mercilessly pearcing anything and everything on its way.

the palace was even afraid to breathe.

the next day, the king had put out a ransom to anyone who brings back the omega prince, dead or alive.

the kim alpha wont let a weak thing outsmart him; even if he gets the omega back alive, he is going to make sure the other will die a very painful death.

it was the talk of the kingdom- some sympathizing for the poor kidnapped prince whereas some eyeing the heafty ransom.

every guard and employee of the palace these days lived fearing for their life. the only one who cared about the omega prince was minsun.

she knows the things taehyung had went through and he hopes no one would ever find him.

the days she misses him, she comes to palace garden; the garden was never really beautiful, but it looked more dead lately.

there was no flowers left, trees that finally succumbed to the attack of parasites, no butterflies, no life.

there was no color left in the palace.

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a/n: i know it can be a bit confusing now but trust me, everything will be more clear soon <3